Microbial molecular epidemiology: An overview; Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for parasites and other pathogens; Plasmid replicon typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis for molecular Epidemiology; Molecular genotyping of microbes by multilocus PCR and mass spectrometry: A new tool for hospital infection control and public health surveillance; Multilocus sequence typing; Multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis; Comparison of molecular typing methods applied to clostridium difficile